-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Peace . Love . And Snarknado 2 .

What does it say when Americans unite , not once , but twice in a lifetime for a TV show ? And not just a TV show , but one where a twister filled with man-eating sharks menaces a major metropolitan area .

We could n't afford a psychologist so we 'll just have to look at social media .

Last summer , `` Sharknado '' churned up a storm of laughs , 5.3 million viewers and enough clever tweets to choke a ... shark .

It was the same story Wednesday night for the debut of `` Sharknado 2 : The Second One '' on Syfy .

The Twitterverse exploded .

#Sharknado2TheSecondOne was the top-trending hashtag on Twitter well into the overnight hours and social search website Topsy recorded more than 215,000 tweets with #sharknado2 over the past day .

But what inspires such passion , such creativity ?

Is it the rubber sharks flying through Midtown Manhattan , the implausible storyline , the Al Roker cameo ?

Yes . Yes . And yes .

With this amount of chum in the water , there was bound to be a feeding frenzy , right ? And there 's more to come .

Syfy has already signed on for a third `` Sharknado '' movie . Screenwriter Thunder Levin predicts now that New York has gone down , there might be a `` global Sharkapocalypse . ''

Heaven forbid .

Sequel suggestions are already making the rounds .

With all this creativity floating around , some were offering Syfy suggestions for new shows at #NewSyFyOriginals .

This one has promise .

And you know you 've got a good thing going when the National Weather Service and the Weather Channel are joining in on the fun .

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Syfy announces ` Sharknado Week ' around ` Sharknado 2 ' premiere

CNN 's Dorrine Mendoza contributed to this report .

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Social media explodes for `` Sharknado 2 ''

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It debuted Wednesday on Syfy

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Sharks invade the Big Apple for the sequel to last summer 's pop culture phenomenon

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Screenwriter predicts there might be a `` global Sharkapocalypse '' in third outing